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04 January 2012

Pet names? What's the best/worst pet name you've ever been called by a sweetheart? →[More:]

I once dated a girl who called me "fucker." As in the Sleater-Kinney song "Write me back, fucker."

Though I got called "sweetie" today and that was pretty swell.

post by: Eideteker at: 14:13 | 24 comments

Tanker Fried Rice is my new nickname for my son. I also call him (and one of our cats) "Bucket" from time to time. I blame my wife's love of lolrus, and my fondness for odd nicknames.

posted by filthy light thief 04 January | 14:51

The BF calls me 'eggplant'. I have no idea why, especially since I probably haven't eaten one in the past seven years.

posted by youngergirl44 04 January | 15:17

I've never been called a pet name by a partner.

posted by Senyar 04 January | 15:50

Two bad ones from former boyfriends: "Keeb," a reference to my small size and the Keebler elf. And "Poo," short for "Poodle," a reference to my curly hair and strong willed ways.

posted by bearwife 04 January | 15:50

Eideteker, that's not a pet name, that's a job description...

posted by TheophileEscargot 04 January | 16:07

Late for Dinner

posted by mullacc 04 January | 16:14

The only pet name I've ever had is the one I'm posting under right now. Obviously, I fucking hate it. :-)

posted by WolfDaddy 04 January | 16:39

Now-deceased BF and I called each other Honey-Bunny, Sugar-Pop, and Lemon-Pie, taken directly from "Pulp Fiction," a movie he adored and watched over and over again. (75% of the movies he picked had scenes of someone doing drugs, which has clouded my opinion of otherwise great movies such as PF.)

posted by Melismata 04 January | 16:51

My husband calls me "Love". He has since we did our first "I love you". I think the only time he has ever called me by my name is when we took our wedding vows. Cue the "awww".

posted by msali 04 January | 16:51

And dare I say, an apt one.

posted by Eideteker 04 January | 16:52

My SO used to call me 'monkey man'. Now she just refers to me as 'you arsehole'.

posted by dg 04 January | 17:28

I was Grumblewart, she was Titwiggle. This was when we had cats named Chainsaw, Venom, and Roadie.

posted by Ardiril 04 January | 17:32

My ex and I called each other baby monkey. We had our own private cutesy language.

My current bf calls me variations/abbreviations of my name with various affectionate Russian suffixes -ushka and -ka. It's adorable. I do the same for him, but it's a bit clunkier for his name. I also like calling him BigNose.

posted by peacheater 04 January | 18:14

An ex-girlfriend insisted upon naming out privates. Mine was Jeff. Her's was Betsy. It was annoying.

posted by Splunge 04 January | 19:46

our^

posted by Splunge 04 January | 19:47

I get Chubkins and Munchkin. Munchkin merged into Chubkins when he inadvertently told me that he thinks I'm chubby. NB: not as assholey as it sounds. I'd been teasing him about him only liking skinny celebrities and he denied it, so I asked him who a chubby person that he fancied was... I was meaning celebrity wise, but he assumed (VERY wrongly) that I was fishing.

Sigh.

posted by jonathanstrange 04 January | 19:57

The husband is really great at pet names. He's like a pet name generator website in person. Hmm. He just spits them out auto randomly. Lammbykins, sunfflewhumps, baby poochacha, etc.

Currently I call him Honey Badger. I'm semi topical like that.

So bad it was good from a distant past relationship = Niffercakes.

posted by rainbaby 04 January | 20:53

The wife and I affectionately address each other as Anus. My last words of the day to her are often "Good night, Anus."

She occasionally embellishes it to Heinous Anus. She made up a little melody for it.

posted by Trurl 04 January | 21:48

Pants. Squirty. Puddinghead. Owlboy.
Really anything that comes to mind when someone calls me something as a term of endearment because I am a horrible and ridiculous person.
If you like them well enough and they use some standard thing all the time, que sera sera, but unless it's based on some in-joke or something, I'm probably going to answer with "Of course, my eight inch lovemuffling horsepatootie jesus lamp light of my life" until they makes jokes about hearing the robot baby next door or roll their eyes.

posted by ethylene 04 January | 21:55

Lammycakes.

posted by danf 04 January | 22:25

Mostly we call each other "Buns". We got a couple Christmas cards addressed to The Buns. Oy. There's also love, pickle, and baby. Oh god, and nutbutt.

I honestly can't remember the last time he called me by my actual name.

posted by Specklet 05 January | 00:57

"Hey ratbag" "yes assface?"

it's meant in a spirit of love.

posted by The Whelk 05 January | 11:25

But his real name is Ratbones.

posted by filthy light thief 05 January | 12:57

"Shmonkey". Shane-monkey. I also received a CD mix labelled "We Are Shanella", a combination of our names. She was a dear and is still a good friend, but we weren't really on the same wavelength and I was, like, No, we aren't really Shanella. In fact I'm just Shane, whomever I'm with.

posted by shane 06 January | 14:15

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